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ALAN BENNETT has been much on the minds of British theatergoers of late. Two different actors, each complete with specs, floppy hair and mournful Yorkshire accent, perform the playwright himself in ''The Lady in the Van,'' the dramatic memoir he...

In the new production of ''Electra'' at the Barrymore Theater, Zoe Wanamaker comes out onstage like a fist. ''Divine light, sweet air, again hear my pain,'' she says in Electra's opening speech. Tiny, with an upturned nose, glinty eyes, and a coat...

December 29, 1998, Tuesday

THEATERGOERS who admired Diana Rigg's grand, actressy, haute-couture appearance in the Euripides ''Medea,'' which came to Broadway from London in 1994, are in for a shock when they see the ''Electra'' now at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. This...

Leave it to a playwright who has been dead for 2,400 years to jolt Broadway out of its dramatic doldrums. Sophocles' ''Electra'' opened at the Barrymore Theater last night in a magnificent new production that represents soul-satisfying drama at its...

December 4, 1998, Friday

Three weeks into October and three new productions look like bona-fide hits. But unlike past seasons, this one has early winners that are neither new Broadway musicals nor expensive revivals but small-budget shows in unlikely Off-Broadway venues. ...

The dialogue is continuing , but it looks likely that Sophocles is heading for Broadway. Negotiations are under way between a group of commercial producers and the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J., to bring the theater's acclaimed production of...

Pat Carroll was attracted to the role of the Chorus of Mycenae in Sophocles' ''Electra'' because of its spareness, its necessity, its raw and relentless candor. ''There is no subtext,'' Ms. Carroll said. ''What is said is what is meant.'' She was...